Any suggestions on best way to convert color photos to black and white. I used Gray Scale mode for this photo. I have found changing modes does not work when using layers so then I have to switch to Desturate method. Are there other ways to do this?

I have heard of but never tried this method. I learned about it in a a book called "Professional Techniques for Black and White Digital Photography" By Patrick Rice.

The book you mentioned is $17.00 on Amazon so I will definately pick that up.

Thanks for the recommendation....

PS

I have learned to control hotspots better by shooting RAW. So when I get hot sopts on a picture I like I have more lattitue to fix than when shooting Large JPG. Digital is almost like shooting slide film and doesn't have the dynamic range of negative film. Sometimes I will shoot 1/3 stop under exposed because it is easier to brighten than fix hot spots.